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Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action Students from the University of Texas have built a screen that you can’t ever look away from because it follows your eye’s every move. Seriously! An eye-tracking camera tracks where your eye is looking and the motorised pico-projector shoots out the display to that target. If you glance off to the right, the screen follows. Hell, if your eye twitches even a little bit, the screen is perfectly adjusted to where you’re staring at.
A Japanese research team has successfully grown a “rudimentary” mouse eye in a petri dish using stem cells. This has many implications for future research and curing blindness. Above is a time-lapse video of the stem sells spontaneously organising into an “optic cup”—the precursor to an eye. Now they need to grow a little pair of Ray Bans in a petri dish and we’ll have the coolest mouse in the world. [Video via The Guardian]
The Nintendo 3DS, once slammed as an eye-destroying device, is now being thought of as a tool for diagnosing eye disorders. According to Digital Trends, optometrists feel this could be a useful tool for early warning signs.
Your eyes and not your hands will perform the bulk of navigation tasks in the future, if technology progresses the way Lenovo hopes. Their prototype eye-controlled laptop is being unveiled to the public this week at the annual CeBit Tech Fair in Hannover, Germany. Among the usual touchscreens, tablets and handheld motion devices, Lenovo’s all-seeing computer lets you point, scroll and click just by using your eyes.
The life-changing artificial retina by Second Sight has today been given the go-ahead by European officials, making it the world’s first to actually go on sale, to anyone who needs it. Well, anyone with $US100,000 spare, that is.
